Time passes but Apple does not change. Nothing to object if, to manage an iPod, an iPhone or an iPad I have to use iTunes to synchronize music, videos and applications, but why this damned program must always be so heavy and inflexible "> iTunes for PC and Mac it is now just a music program and is lighter.
The solution to avoid installing a lot of useless stuff is to split the giant installer by extracting only iTunes or other parts if you want .
The guide for a minimal installation of Itunes without add-ons is quite simple and requires only two minutes of extra patience.
To get started, instead of automatically updating iTunes, you should first uninstall it completely.
Now, instead of starting the iTunes installer iTunesSetup.exe (which can be downloaded from the Apple website), you have to unpack it with 7Zip or Winrar or Izarc or another of the best programs to compress and decompress archives.
After extracting the main installer to a folder on Windows, you will notice the separate installation packages, for each of the components mentioned above.
Now you can safely install only iTunes on your computer without understanding Bonjour and all the rest.
Who owns the iPhone, the iPod Touch or the iPad will also have to install the driver package (Apple Mobile Device Support).
To perform a minimal, clean and automatic installation, you need to open a Dos window (start a command prompt by typing cmd in the run box from the start menu), go to the itunessetup folder where the installation packages are (if they are in C, use the command cd C: \ itunessetup ) and write, one at a time, the following commands:
"C: \ itunessetup \ AppleApplicationSupport.msi" / passive
"C: \ itunessetup \ QuickTime.msi" / passive
"C: \ itunessetup \ iTunes.msi" / passive
"C: \ itunessetup \ AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi" / passive
In this way the installation should go smoothly, without interruption and, above all, without including things like Bonjour.
Maybe one day Apple will present a decent version of iTunes that is not so big, meanwhile, my advice, always remains to manage Ipod and Iphone without Itunes even if you can not do without Apple software to buy applications.
Finally, I remember the guide to uninstall iTunes and Apple programs from the computer and that there is the light version of iTunes already streamlined of all unnecessary components.
